Ilke Cugu
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIlke Cugu is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building resilient, high-performance backend systems for cloud and enterprise products. She has driven critical reliability and automation work at Microsoft Azure (Cosmos DB/Postgres & MongoDB vCore), cutting provisioning times from minutes to seconds, leading outage-resiliency initiatives, and automating fleet security updates. Her background spans research-grade computer vision and ML from a stint as a research scientist to industrial-scale engineering at Siemens, where she introduced deep learning for predictive maintenance and delivered large I/O and visualization speedups. Comfortable across Ruby, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native tooling, she combines academic rigor with hands-on incident response and customer-focused fixes. A practical problem-solver, she has repeatedly turned operational pain points into measurable platform improvements and won multiple internal awards for security and reliability work.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ankara Atatürk Anadolu LisesiMaster of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (18)
face10
facial-expression-recognition10
model-compression10
machine-learning9
face-detection9
face-recognition9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
computer-vision9
deep-neural-networks8
data-augmentation6
kubernetes-pods4
csi-driver4
azure-keyvault3
kubernetes-secrets3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cuguilke/Treelogy
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
cuguilke/microexpnet
Nov 2017 - Mar 2021
MicroExpNet: An Extremely Small and Fast Model For Expression Recognition From Frontal Face Images
Contributions:72 commits, 3 PRs, 68 pushes in 3 years 4 months
expression-recognitiondeep-learningfrontal-faceface-recognitionrecognition
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